Paul David Hurd Papers
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- Creators:
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Hurd, Paul David, 1921-
- Dates:
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1938-1982 and undated
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30.30 cu. ft. (60 document boxes) (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7311
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers document the professional career and to a lesser extent the personal life of Paul D. Hurd, Jr., between 1938 and 1982. Particularly well represented in the papers is material concerning his research on the insect order Hymenoptera; his teaching and research career at the University of California, Berkeley; his administrative ...
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- Dates:
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circa 1911
- Size:
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1.35 Gigabytes (10 digital images)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2018.0062
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of digital image scans made from ten glass negatives depicting aviation related activities in the Boston, Massachusetts, area circa 1911. The first six images are views of a homebuilt version of a Santos-Dumont 20 Demoiselle (without an engine) on the ground. The remaining four images were taken from the grandstands during the 1911 Harvard-Boston Aero Meet held August 26 through September 4, 1911; two of these provide distant views of a Burgess F (Wright Model B) Moth biplane in flight.
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National Museum of American History. Office of Special Events
- Dates:
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circa 1980-1987
- Size:
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15 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 595
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of Doubleday Lecture Series planning files, contracts, and invitation lists; floor plan drawings for events; information on opening exhibition tours and receptions; newspaper clippings, press releases, and articles pertaining to events; symposium information; photographs and contact sheets of lecturers, exhibition op...
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- Creators:
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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October 1990
- Size:
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156 slides (photographs) (color, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1991-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Christraud Geary during a research trip to Dakar and Gorée Island, Senegal in October 1990.
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Meyerowitz, Eva Levine-Richter, 1899-1994
Meyerowitz, Herbert Vladimir, 1900-1945
- Dates:
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circa 1936 - circa 1937
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88 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35 mm)
268 copy negatives (black and white, 35 mm)
285 Photographic prints ((0.4 cubic feet; 3 binders), black and white, 8 x 10 inches or smaller)
16 contact sheets (black and white, 8 1/2 x 11 inches or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1987-009
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection consists of negatives and photographic prints taken in 1936 and 1937 by Eva L.R. Meyerowitz in Nigeria, Benin and Ghana. Peoples depicted include the Akan, Fon, Konkomba, and Tallensi and subjects include artisans, blacksmiths, dancing, markets, artwork and objects that were originally displyed in King Bezu's palace in Abomey, potters, shrines, and vernacular architeture.
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- Creators:
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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1994
- Size:
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527 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1994-008
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Dr. Christraud M. Geary during a research trip to Kenya and Tanzania in August 1994.
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- Creators:
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Greene, Candace S.
Turner, Hannah
- Dates:
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2015
- Size:
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0.2 Megabytes (1 PDF)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2019-09
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
This project was intended to document some major institutional changes and challenges in cataloging and digitizing material culture in anthropological collections that have taken place over the past 30-50 years of museum practice. The project was initiated in 2015 by Dr. Candace Greene, who was concerned that the operational history of digitization...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Cultural History
- Dates:
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circa 1994-1997
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (2 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 98-042
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the acquisition of a bell to be hung in the north tower of the Smithsonian Building in 1996 during the 1996 celebration of the Smithsonian Institution sesquicentennial. The bell was manufactured by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London, England. David Shayt, a Museum Specialist in the Division ...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Community Life
- Dates:
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1968-1991
- Size:
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-164
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the curatorial records of Carl H. Scheele during his tenure as Associate Curator in Charge and Curator in the Division of Postal History, 1964-1977; Curator in the Division of Community Life, 1978-1987; and as Curator Emeritus, 1987-1989. Materials primarily include correspondence, memoranda, and notes documenting ...
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- Creators:
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National Museum of American History. Division of Home and Community Life
- Dates:
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1945, 1960-2010
- Size:
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 12-372
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of flag files created and maintained by the Division of Home and Community Life. The flag files consist of research and documentation of the various versions of the United States flag as well as textile examinations of flags conducted by curators. Staff represented included Katherine Dirks, associate curator; Rita ...